"...[T]he Doctors say that there was over five hundred births on the open Prairies on Monday and Monday night," a woman named Amelia told her sister in a letter full of fire rumors and uncertain syntax, punctuation, and capitalization. "...After the fire," she continued, "there was eighty thousand People out there and there is hundreds there yet they have put up tents for them as there is no houses for them to live in their suffering is terrible as they have no stoves to keep them warm and are obliged to lie on the ground they are supplied with food sent in from other citties already cooked cold of course well Nan I will stop for I might sit here and write all week and then not tell you a tenth part of the misery of our beautiful Chicago."